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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2017.41.5.375

Acceleration Test Method for Failure Prediction of the End Cap Contact Region of Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor Fuel Rod  

Kim, Hyung-Kyu (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, Young-Ho (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, Hyun-Seung (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, Kang-Hee (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.41, no.5, 2017 , pp. 375-380 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper reports the results of an acceleration test to predict the contact-induced failure that could occur at the cylinder-to-hole joint for the fuel rod of a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR). To incorporate the fuel life of the SFR currently under development at KAERI (around 35,000 h), the acceleration test method of reliability engineering was adopted in this work. A finite element method was used to evaluate the flow-induced vibration frequency and amplitude for the test parameter values. Five specimens were tested. The failure criterion during the life of the SFR fuel was applied. The S-N curve of the HT-9, the material of concern, was used to obtain the acceleration factor. As a result, a test time of 16.5 h was obtained for each specimen. It was concluded that the $B_{0.004}$ life would be guaranteed for the SFR fuel rods with 99% confidence if no failure was observed at any of the contact surfaces of the five specimens.
Keywords
Acceleration Test; Contact-induced Failure Prediction; Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor Fuel; Fatigue Life;
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